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Explanatory note

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This Order gives effect to a draft order submitted by the magistrates' courts committee for the County of North Yorkshire and provides for the abolition of the petty sessional divisions of Allertonshire, Birdforth, Bulmer East, Bulmer West, Gilling East, Hallikeld, Hang East, Hang West, Malton, Richmond and Gilling West, Ryedale and Stokesley, and for the areas comprised therein to form new divisions of Easingwold, Northallerton, Richmond and Ryedale.

The Order also provides for the transfer of the parish of Wighill from the Claro division to the division of Selby.

The existing petty sessional divisions of Ripon Liberty, Scarborough, Staincliffe, Whitby Strand and York remain unaltered.